Abstract
To address user cold-start challenge in multimedia recommender systems, we proposed a new model named USBE in this paper. The model doesn’t take the new user’s personal and social information as the necessary parameters to solve cold-start challenge, and new user can complete cold-start by having a simple system experience. Based on the user-similarity and the discrimination of the multimedia items, the model can recommend suitable items for cold-start users and let users choose and give feedback independently. Our model is lightweight and low delay, and provides a new cold-start mode. To complement USBE model, we proposed a cyclic training multilayer perceptron model (Re-NN) to get the strategy of new user’s user-similarity changes. Experiments on a real-world movie recommendation dataset Movielens show: Our model has good results and achieves state-of-the-art after 4 rounds of cold-start recommendations.
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The data were constructed using the publicly available dataset Movielens 1M, and the construction method is described in the article. Movielens https://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/
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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61772449, and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province China under Grant F2019203120.
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He, H., Zhang, R., Zhang, Y. et al. USBE: User-similarity based estimator for multimedia cold-start recommendation. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 1127–1142 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15493-9
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